2024 Higginbotham Leadership Awards
The Lawyers’ Committee hosts the Higginbotham Awards gala annually to highlight the exemplary contributions of corporate executives, policy makers, professional athletes, authors, artists and other individuals who champion the cause of justice and equality for all.
Celebrating Leaders in Justice and Equality
The Higginbotham Leadership Awards gala is named in honor of A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. a celebrated statesman, civil rights champion, author, professor, historian, and federal appeals court judge. The Lawyers’ Committee hosts the Higginbotham Awards gala annually to highlight the exemplary contributions of corporate executives, policy makers, professional athletes, authors, artists and other individuals who champion the cause of justice and equality for all. The gala is one of the largest events in the civil rights community. We invite you to join us as we build partnerships that foster a culture of democracy and amplifies voice, opportunity and power of Black people and other communities of color.
Featuring
CLIENT AWARDEE
Ruthie Walls
Ms. Walls and other teachers and students serve as plaintiffs in Walls v. Sanders, a successful challenge to the Arkansas LEARNS Act, which would have punished educators for teaching about Critical Race Theory.
BEACON OF JUSTICE
Arian Simone
CEO and Founding Partner of the Fearless Fund
DISTINGUISHED CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE
Leader Hakeem Jeffries
House Democratic Leader (D, NY-8)
SPECIAL GUEST
Letitia James
New York State Attorney General
SPECIAL GUEST EMCEE
Melissa Murray
Co-Host, “Strict Scrutiny” Podcast and Professor of Law, NYU
MUSICAL GUEST
Leon Timbo
Singer and Songwriter
Speakers
DAMON T. HEWITT
President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
DANIELLE R. HOLLEY
President, Mount Holyoke
Board Co-Chair
MICHAEL E. SWARTZ
Partner,
Schulte, Roth & Zabel
Board Co-Chair
Thank You to Our Higginbotham Gala Supporters
Questions about sponsorship or tickets email event@lawyerscommittee.org
Amicus - $100,000
The Home Depot
Universal Music Group
Champion - $50,000
AirBnb
Amazon
Comcast
Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP
Eversheds Sutherland LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Outten & Golden LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
PNC
Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Benefactor - $25,000
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cooley LLP
Cozen O’Connor
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Fenwick & West LLP
Gibson & Dunn LLP
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Hogan Lovells LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Milbank LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Nationwide
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pfizer Inc.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Russell Reynolds
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLC
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wilmerhale LLP
